New Tongan Island
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VIDEO
File Name: NewTonganIsland_Long.mov
Description: Produced video story. Title: The Birth of an Island
Credit: NASA/Lauren Ward
Youtube:
File Name: NewTonganIsland_Short.mov
Description: Produced video. Data visualization animation of the evolution of the Tongan island with narration by Jim Garvin, Chief Scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center.
Credit: NASA/Cindy Starr/Lauren Ward
Youtube:
File Name: Crater_Tumblr_Update.mp4
Caption: The collapse of the crater wall on the island's southern side and in May 2015 opened the crater lake to the ocean. The subsequent growth of a sandbar in June 2015 cut the crater lake off again.
Credit: ©DigitalGlobe and ©CNES distribution Airbus DS
File Name: HTHH_Eruption_1080p30.mov
Description: Data visualization animation of the new Tongan island, includes an animation of the volcanic eruption.
Credit: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio/Cindy Starr
File Name: HTHH_NoEruption_1080p30.mp4
Description:Data visualization animation of the new Tongan island.
Credit: NASA/Scientific Visualization Studio/Cindy Starr
File Name: HTHH_On_Location_1.mp4
Description: Video footage from the rim of the crater, June 4, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
File Name: HTHH_On_Location_2.mp4
Description: Video footage from the rim of the crater, June 4, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
File Name: HTHH_On_Location_3.mp4
Description: Video footage from the rim of the crater, June 4, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
File Name: Istmus_Tumblr_Update.mp4
Caption: Ocean waves redistributed eroded sediment to form an isthmus from the new island to its western neighbor.
Credit: ©DigitalGlobe
File Name: NewTonganIsland_Social.mp4
Caption: Produced video story. Title: The Birth of an Island in .mp4
Credit: NASA/Lauren Ward
GIFS
File Name: Crater_Tumblr_Update.gif
Caption: The collapse of the crater wall on the island's southern side and in May 2015 opened the crater lake to the ocean. The subsequent growth of a sandbar in June 2015 cut the crater lake off again.
Credit: ©DigitalGlobe and ©CNES distribution Airbus DS
File Name: Istmus_Tumblr_Update.gif
Caption: Ocean waves redistributed eroded sediment to form an isthmus from the new island to its western neighbor.
Credit: ©DigitalGlobe
STILLS
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Caption: The Sept. 19th satellite image of the Tongan island is overlain with lines that show its previous coastlines from Jan. 2015 (red) through the present (blues).
Credit: NASA/©DigitalGlobe
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Caption: The underwater bathymetry of the southern side of the island into the underwater Hunga volcano with contour lines every 5 meters depth.
Credit: Columbia University/Vicki Ferrini
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Caption: Tephra surface of the Tongan island, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption: View of crater lake from the summit rim, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption: Tephra cliffs compose the interior crater wall, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption: Tephra cliffs compose the interior crater wall, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption: Tephra surface of the Tongan island, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption:View of crater lake from the summit rim, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption: Tephra cliffs compose the interior crater wall, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption: Sediment from the eroded cliffs form a beach around the crater lake, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption: Tephra cliffs compose the interior crater wall. A sandbar on the southern side of the island walls off the crater lake from the ocean, June 4-5, 2017.
Credit: NASA/Damien Grouille/Cecile Sabau
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Caption:Digital elevation model derived from stereo satellite images shows the topography of the new island. Left: Apr. 21, 2015. Right: Sept. 19, 2017.
Credit: NASA
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Caption: This synthetic aperture radar image from the Canadian Space Agency's RadarSat-2 shows the Tongan island's topography in detail that complements the optical sensors, Nov. 24, 2017.
Credit: ©MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates LTD. (2017)
File name: Mars_crop.0000_tuffCone_HiRISE_DEM.png
Caption: Digital elevation model derived from stereo views of a Martian volcano from the HiRISE instrument aboard Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
Credit: NASA/JPL/U. Arizona
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Caption: High-resolution satellite image of the Tongan island right after it formed, Jan. 19, 2015.
Credit: Pleiades-1A ©2015 CNES Distribution Airbus DS
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Caption: Perspective view of Sept. 19, 2017 satellite image overlain with brown transparent layer to show the volume of material lost to erosion.
Credit: NASA/©2017 DigitalGlobe
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Caption: Digital elevation model derived from stereo satellite images shows the topography of Surtsey, Iceland, formed in 1963 (left) and the new Tongan island (right).
Credit: NASA
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Caption: Top-down view of the underwater bathymetry of the Hunga volcano. The new Tongan island sits on the northern rim of the caldera.
Credit: Columbia University/Vicki Ferrini
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Caption: High-resolution satellite image of the Tongan island at 31 months Sept. 19, 2017.
Credit: ©2017 DigitalGlobe
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